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Section: AT3RA Instructor: Scott Henkle T-Th: 10:50-12:05 Office: Klapper 346 Classroom: KY/326 Office Hours: T 12-1 (or by appointment)
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This week is quite simple: read Persepolis for Tuesday, and write/draw/make a non-fiction comic for Thursday. It's fine with me if you go over the two page limit. And this isn't required, but if you can scan and post your pages, we'd all be deeply deeply grateful. You can post pictures via one of the icons where you find the font, italics, etc when posting.
As for the final project, the assignment is largely up to you. The requirements are: 1) write (or make/draw if you're going the comic route) a ten to fifteen page non-fiction piece and 2) write a one page (a full page--more is fine) analysis/reflection on how this final piece fits into the issues in the course as a whole. Of particular interest, as you might imagine, is the following question: How is this non-fiction writing?
The piece is due via email by 5 pm on Friday, May 22nd (the Friday of finals week).
One can buy Persepolis in two forms: volume 1 and volume 2 are sold separately, and a Complete Persepolis (which has both volumes combined) is also available. We're only dealing with volume 1 in this course, so either buy that (red cover) or the Complete. You can purchase it anywhere, or order it here.
As for the final project, the assignment is largely up to you. The requirements are: 1) write (or make/draw if you're going the comic route) a ten to fifteen page non-fiction piece and 2) write a one page (a full page--more is fine) analysis/reflection on how this final piece fits into the issues in the course as a whole. Of particular interest, as you might imagine, is the following question: How is this non-fiction writing?
The piece is due via email by 5 pm on Friday, May 22nd (the Friday of finals week).
One can buy Persepolis in two forms: volume 1 and volume 2 are sold separately, and a Complete Persepolis (which has both volumes combined) is also available. We're only dealing with volume 1 in this course, so either buy that (red cover) or the Complete. You can purchase it anywhere, or order it here.
Provisional Schedule
| 1.27 | Intro |
| 1.29 | Classic Essays: Charles Lamb: -Dissertation on Roast Pig George Eliot: "A Man Surprised At His Originality" |
| 2.3 | Classic Essays: Baldwin: Notes of a Native Son, |
| 2.5 | Essay 1: On an Abstraction (On Love, On Keeping a Notebook, Of Drunkeness, etc) |
| 2.10 | Fiction that Looks Like Non-Fiction: Borges: Pierre Menard Kafka and His Predecessors |
| 2.12 | NO CLASS : Lincoln’s Birthday |
| 2.17 | Fiction that looks like nonfiction (continued): Sebald: Excerpt from Emmigrants: Dr. Henry Selwyn' Excerpt from Vertigo: 'Dr. K. Takes The Waters At Riva' |
| 2.19 | Essay 2: Fiction that looks like non-fiction (Indexes of invented people) |
| 2.24 | Aphorism/Collage/fragment |
| 2.26 | Essay 3: Working with aphorism/fragments |
| 3.3 | Found Texts: Shields ‘Life Story’ (about halfway down page) |
| 3.5 | Essay 4: Working with found texts |
| 3.10 | Nature/Cities/Places/Things John McPhee: Annals of the Former World (excerpt) Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (read pages 111-137 of this version) |
| 3.12 | Essay 5: Description |
| 3.17 | Dairies, Letters, Journals: Gaugin’s Journals (read just up to page 13) |
| 3.19 | Essay 6: Keep or modify a journal or diary. |
| 3.24 | Comic Writing: |
| 3.26 | Essay 7: Comic writing |
| 3.31 | Faking Autobiography: Gornick: Situation and the Story James Frey: A Million Little Pieces (excerpt) |
| 4.2 | Essay 8: True autobiographies, untrue autobiographies |
| 4.7 | Conferences |
| 4.9-4.17 | NO CLASS |
| 4.21 | Typography: |
| 4.23 | Essay 9: Typographic experiments |
| 4.28 | Critical Fiction: Defoe/Coetzee Defoe: Tour of the Whole Island of Great Britain (excerpt) |
| 4.30 | Essay 10: Reworking a Classic Text |
| 5.5 | Comics (Persepolis) |
| 5.7 | Essay 11: Non-fiction Comic |
| 5.12 | Class Reading |
| 5.17 | t.b.a. |
| 5.18 | Final Project Due |
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I really enjoyed your essay. First, the way you broke it down into minutes was very clever, I don't think that possibility ever crossed my mind. The whole piece works extremely well for me, I felt each minute pass by and the person's mind running. It's interesting because your character lives by a routine and depends on time and your essay does a nice job showing this process in a more literal way. The description of the donut was very effective, I'm now craving dunkin' donuts. The lines, "MINUTES XVI-XVII, I looked at my watch it was around 8:14 in the morning. That’s when I heard a loud thump on the floor. It was me on the ground after my heart attack", honestly was a shock to me. I wasn't expecting that to be the ended to the essay. When I first read the title I thought what was bothering Nathan during his run was that maybe someone died close to him. You did a nice job using some foreshadowing with Nathan thinking, "I couldn’t figure it out why I felt awkward". I also found it interesting that you didn't leave off with him having the heart attack, you concluded his story explaining that he returned to his routine 2 years later.. I think that was a nice way to end the whole piece. My only suggestion is to make the "rule of living" a little more clear, unless I'm the only one that didn't pick up on it (lol).
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